What is Critical Core?

Critical Core is a social-skills intervention in the form of a tabletop role playing game. Developed under the guidance of therapists and child psychiatrists and using the practices developed by Game to Grow’s founders Adam Davis and Adam Johns, the game invites children to enter a shared world of fantasy, consequence, and social problem solving.

Critical Core combines modern developmental therapies with the mechanics of tabletop role-playing games to help kids connect with their parents, their friends, and the world around them. Players learn communication and collaboration skills, develop frustration tolerance and emotional resilience, and build empathy for others, all while rolling dice and having fun.

What’s included?

Critical Core will be a boxed kit featuring rule books, character sheets, maps and more!

The box set includes everything needed to get started, whether you are an expert player or someone new to the world of tabletop role-playing games.

Who is Critical Core for? Do I have to be a therapist to use it?

Critical Core is for anyone who wants to support the autistic community with a new and innovative intervention. Game to Grow has seen just how powerful tabletop role-playing games can be as a support for young people building social skills, especially those with autism-related social challenges. Critical Core will be accessible to therapists, educators, and parents, allowing them to use this tool with those in their own community.

It will also be a tool for gamers—those who have felt the positive impact of games in their own lives—to give back. Critical Core will help game masters align their games to provide specific supports to autistic players, supported by the methods and strategies used by experts in the field.

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Learn more about Critical Core!

Critical Core is a take-home kit which will allow parents, therapists, educators, and advocates to help their own communities using a custom RPG with a modified and accessible module aligned to help kids on the autism spectrum. Learn more here!